Via the Marmot’s Hole comes news of a Canadian selling marijuana to it appears mostly English teachers:
Police said Friday they have arrested and detained five people, including a Korean man with Canadian nationality, suspected of dealing marijuana in two separate drug rings.
Police also booked 31 others, including a 36-year-old college professor from the U.S., for investigation without physical detention for allegedly purchasing the drug from the arrested suspects, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said.
The Canadian national, a underground hip-hop singer working as a native teacher of English, identified only by the initial of his name H, allegedly sold marijuana to fellow English teachers from the U.S. and Canada as well as to an employee of a local industrial conglomerate, the police said.
The suspects are believed to have distributed about 438 grams of Canadian and locally-grown hemp in well-known private English education institutions in Seoul and nearby and southern cities since July last year, according to the police.
They are alleged to have divided roles among themselves to separately and secretly deliver and sell the drug.
Among those arrested or booked was a 31-year-old teacher of English employed by a private institution who allegedly smuggled Canadian hemp into Korea and sold it to fellow teachers, as well as a local college student who is suspected of buying marijuana to re-sell to local Koreans, including an office worker, a used-car dealer and a bar owner.
Alleging widespread marijuana smoking among foreign teachers, the police said the country needs a more thorough system to identify illegal hemp use among native English-speaking teachers here. [Korea Herald]
So is the Korean police suggesting that native English teachers need to have monthly urinalysis like we have in the US military?
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7:32 pm on February 18th, 2012 1
Several years ago I knew a reporter in Seoul (an Aussie) that grew his own and dealt a little (not much, he mostly grew for his own use, but would supply a few close friends). He left Korea several years ago though.
8:33 pm on February 18th, 2012 2
Lol at the “police” alledging widespread drug use among foreign teachers – like they’d know. Korean police have got to be the laziest most incompetent public servants in Korea, and that’s saying A LOT considering the scale of idiocy from top to bottom. The only time Korean police solve cases like this is when either someone turns themselves in, or is turned in by someone else.
8:35 pm on February 18th, 2012 3
“Alleging widespread marijuana smoking among foreign teachers, the police said the country needs a more thorough system to identify illegal hemp use among native English-speaking teachers here. ”
Bullshit. They got a guy who sold a pound of pot over how many months? That’s widespread use? I think someone’s talking out of his ass, trying to blow this little arrest out of proportion to benefit his own professional aspirations.
12:45 am on February 19th, 2012 4
“They are alleged to have divided roles among themselves to separately and secretly deliver and sell the drug.”
Role A: Hey, I’ll go to Canada and bring back some hemp.
Role B: Hey, I’ll buy some from you, smoke it with you, and help you sell some to used car salesmen.
Role C: Hey, I’ll so the same as B except I’ll also sell it to Korean women.
Role D: Hey, I’ll do the same as B and C but sell to business/bar owners.
Role E: Hey, I’ll do the same as B, C, and D, but add office workers to our customer base.
Role F: Hey, for some hemp I’ll keep stats on which Koreans use the most hemp.
Role G: Hey, for some hemp I’ll keep and count the money.
Role H: Hey, I’ll plan the hemp parties.
Role I: Hey I’ll protect ya’ll from the cops, for some doob myself.
1:22 am on February 19th, 2012 5
Rediculous…I worked in Korea for about 10 years and in the countryside in Korea GREAT “hemp” grows everywhere…at least where I was working…GREAT stuff!
-hahahaha Korean gov’t…You didn’t catch me and I smoked a hell of a lot of great Korean “hemp”…hemp?…Yeah, right!…Just be sure to remove males in the early summer…enjoy!
-Stephen
2:56 am on February 19th, 2012 6
“the country needs a more thorough system to identify illegal hemp use among native English-speaking teachers here”
That’s easy.
Look for the unmotivated sloppily-dressed Western girls with munchy-induced wide azzes.
Good God! They are ALL using hemp!
9:52 pm on February 19th, 2012 7
#6,
The irony is that many of them are vegetarians. How does a vegetarian get fat? By eating lots of chocolate, which I hear is a substitute for sex.
1:10 am on February 20th, 2012 8
If chocolate is a substitute for sex, does that make chocolate milk a substitute for a golden shower or bukaki?
None-the-less…
Generally, vegetarians are the most sickly looking things.
It seems coffee, cigarettes, and cake are not really good meat substitutes.
Even the ones who eat otherwise healthy food get “the look”… a general aura of something being not quite right… similar to what you can often sense in those hiding chronic diseases, repressing childhood trauma, or abusing drugs.
In the end, I generally find people who push vegetarianism and those who rave about Apple products to be generally unlikable. When they do both, they are intolerable.
4:43 am on February 20th, 2012 9
No idea about Korea these days, but back in the late 70′s pot was a huge no-no. You could easily (even a GI) get a 10 year sentence for pot (and a duffle bag full was only $10, but you damn near had to smoke that much to get a buzz). But, give one of the Korean working girls a buck, and she could go into one of the local pharmacies and get you either a bottle of codeine, a bottle of Romilar, a bottle of 100 pills of ephenedrine (speed), or many other things. I never tried them, but I knew a few guys who took what we called ‘skoshi yellows’. I think they were Romilar pills, or something like that. The quality control back in those days sucked though. One time you take 20 of them before getting a buzz, the next batch may only require 5 for the same buzz or worse. It led to a bunch of “training accidents”, since that sounded better than overdoses to the surviving families back home. But, I will admit that I often gave the girls a bit of cash for 2 bottles of Romilar and bottle of codeine. Slam those and you had a pretty good buzz for about 8-10 hours.
8:16 pm on February 20th, 2012 10
#9,
In the 90′s, pharmacists were still able to prescribe medicine. One day, I went to the pharmacy because I had pulled one of my biceps at the gym. The pharmacist wasn’t there, but his wife was…I have no idea what she gave me, but just one pill was enough. I felt no pain and I was as high as a kite.